Tutte le Fiabe degli Animali
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1997
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This large paperbound book is almost 12 x 8¾. As the back cover proclaims, it has 192 pages to read and 64 pages to color. The back cover also lists the twelve stories. Among them are eight familiar fables: TH, FC, FS, LM, GA, FG, TMCM, and BC. This is splashy big children's art as I have come to know it from Italian publications, full of clothed, playful animals. Each fable lasts sixteen pages. All but the first and last pages are given to two-page spreads with lively scenes and bright colors. As I began to review the book's fables, I thought I recognized something. It turns out that the first four repeat the presentation given them in Fiabe degli Allegri Animali by the same publisher in the same year. I will repeat my comments on them from that book. There are some very good turns to the stories. Thus the last image for TH shows an animal paying off a bet and looking askance at the rabbit who has made him lose money! In FC, a mouse starts the story by taking some cheese. The crow steals it from him. At the end, the fox divides the dropped cheese with the victimized mouse. In FS, both characters are female. The expression of the famished departing fox at the end of the story is very well done. In LM, three animals are moving through the woods with their pea-shooters. Against the others' advice, Michael the mouse shoots at Leone Poldo and hits him in the eye, awakening him. At the end, Michael rides on Poldo's hat. The cicada in GA is a wonderful sleaze-ball! The ants bring the frozen cicada into their home, and he plays the violin for their dancing. Disney unfortunately lives! The fox in FG is a violent rascal. He tries catapulting himself up to the grapes but only hurts himself in the process. The mice in BC try whacking the cat with a log from the fire before their great bell idea. In the end they have to leave their city. As in Fiabe degli Allegri Animali the first half of the pages to color seem to be from TH, Puss 'n' Boots, Rumpelstiltskin, and Aladdin. The rest are most likely from GA, Three Little Pigs, The Ugly Duckling, and Bambi.
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